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“No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.”

Wanted Wall Beats

Author:Scott Pelley

“After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.”

People Writing Character Wanted Animal Creatures Communicate Dragons Recluse Mythical Creatures Lioness

Author:Tamora Pierce

“When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.”

Firsts Wanted

Author:Aaron Paul

“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?”

Thinking Years Children Wanted America Moving Grows Sides Animal Boys Growing Up Nice Years Ago Twenties East Profession Jungle Columbus Wild Animal East Side

Author:Abraham Polonsky

“People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.”

People Want Stills Wanted Dog Baby Bad Times

Author:Ann Patchett

“I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.”

Children Age Wanted Young Actors Parent Acting Careers Path Fields Mines Understood Indian Supportive Young Age

Author:Archie Panjabi

“I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.”

Wanted University Stuck Dedicated Nursery

Author:Archie Panjabi

“I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.”

Wanted Faces Black Acting Careers Goes On Management University Boxes Brown Phds Black Face

Author:Archie Panjabi

“My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.”

Said Hard Wanted Young Mother Father Teacher Actresses Supportive

Author:Archie Panjabi

“It just meant a lot because it's something I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a Senior National Champ. I was Junior National Champ in 2002, so now to be the senior champ is great.”

Wanted Senior Juniors

Author:Carly Patterson

“I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.”

Writing Trying Wanted Easy This Day Occupation Hunts Sissy

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.”

Years Children Different Wanted Mother Social Genius Years Ago Doctors Bottom Lawyer Scales Cooks Thirty Architect

Author:Jacques Pepin

“I've actually always wanted to be able to read people's minds. My sister did a movie with super-powers and that's the one I would have wanted, so I really lucked out. The negative is that people are really cruel in their own minds, but you can weed out the bad people from the good people, and then just hang out with the good people.”

People Mind Able Wanted Negative Hanging Out Weed Good People My Sister Bad People Super Power

Author:Kay Panabaker

“Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.”

Firsts Wells Wanted Actors Saws Singers Painter Arabia Carpenter Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Michael Pitt

“I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.”

Men Trying Wanted Clothes

Author:Miuccia Prada

“The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.”

Kids Wanted Young Actors Stage New York Naive Stage Actors

Author:Oliver Platt

“I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.”

Kids Wanted Singers Oklahoma

Author:Patti Page

“When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.”

Thinking Littles Wanted My Boyfriend

Author:Pauley Perrette

“I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.”

Looks Wanted Beautiful Young Girl Father Black Figures Hair Video Asian Father Figure Black Hair

Author:Pauley Perrette

“I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.”

Way Years Two Feelings Wanted Opportunity Talent Two Years Navy Let It Go Dames Notre Dame

Author:Regis Philbin

“I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.”

Wanted Musician

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.”

Knows Want Years Wanted President Growing Up Growing Ten Towns Chicago Mayors

Author:William Petersen

“I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.”

Ifs Years Wanted Lasts Guy Wall Series Pushing Cop Bad Guys

Author:William Petersen

“I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.”

Way Should Wanted Film Quality Television Quality Work

Author:Maggie Q

“There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.”

Made Play Shows Wanted Choices Roles Tvs Ideals Doctors Let Me Tv Shows

Author:Amy Ryan

“You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.”

People Firsts Wanted Guy Nice Doctors Nice Guy Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I love skin care and actually wanted to be an esthetician for many years.”

Years Care Wanted Skins Skin Care

Author:Ashley Rickards

“I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.”

People Thinking Way Mean Kids Wanted Class Issues Worst Tests Pursue

Author:Ashley Rickards

“I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.”

Thinking Kids Wanted Rapper Entertainers

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.”

Art Country Wanted Artist Fun Realizing Class Seeing Inspire Painting Art Class

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.”

Kind Ideas Wanted Artist Involved Mets Rate Indian Cartoon Ink Neighbour Cartoonist

Author:Edward Ruscha

“My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.”

Looks Wanted Felt Car Understood My Friends Soldier Neighbor Mechanic Restless Fixing

Author:Edward Ruscha

“Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.”

Writing Wanted Fiction Scottish

Author:Ian Rankin

“I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.”

Shows Kids Wanted Show Me

Author:Michael J. Fox

“We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.”

Play Wanted Heavy Melody Heavy Music

Author:Adam Rich

“I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine.”

Whole Able Wanted Girl Goal Seeing Mines Inspired Great Things Usa Competing Olympian

Author:Aly Raisman

“I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.”

Moments Wanted Actors Creating

Author:Anthony Rapp

“So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.”

Real Shows Reality Wanted Values Drama Focused Bunch Fake Bulls Family Values Reality Shows Something Real

Author:Bill Rancic

“I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.”

Years Stories Wanted Cameras Eight Telling Stories

Author:Brett Ratner

“By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.”

Wanted Tired

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.”

Age Wanted Involved Old Age Ripe Nonprofits

Author:David Rubenstein

“I knew I always wanted to sing.”

Wanted

Author:David Ruffin

“My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.”

Looks Use Wanted Jobs Film Interesting Particular Proud Technique Entertaining Principal Format

Author:Guy Ritchie

“Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.”

Ifs Giving Kids Wanted Five Share Minutes Ten Give Me Shining Available Worn Five Minutes

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.”

People Way Want Country Wanted Order Effort Impossible Solutions Our Country Peaceful Nato Serbia

Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.”

Ifs Want Ends Wanted Boys Involved Method Hearing Operations Posters Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.”

Littles Wanted Bits Audience Little Bit Decided Surprise Caught Something Better Austin

Author:Jay Roach

“I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.”

Firsts Wanted Acting Growing Up Five Growing Player Ambition Musician Nine Hockey Usual Hockey Player

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.”

Wells Important Wanted Film Three Opportunity Missing

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.”

Want Light Wanted Ramones

Author:Johnny Ramone

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